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Modeling Disability: Softly Making The Invisible Visible, Libby Evan
Modeling Disability: Softly Making The Invisible Visible, Libby Evan
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
“I am not asking for pity. I am telling you about my disability.” -Eli Clare
In the following Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis statement, you will not find someone overcoming their disability. You will not find a tale of inspiration. You will not find a cure for ableism. You simply will find an individual's experience of disability— my experience of disability.
My invisible disability puts the medical model and social model of disability in constant tension as I navigate everyday life living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and severe arthritis. Both models seek to find blame for disability, whether in searching …
Wax Bodies: Candles, Queerness, & Taking Up Space, Moya Shpuntoff
Wax Bodies: Candles, Queerness, & Taking Up Space, Moya Shpuntoff
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
My partner and collaborator Callaway Fox and I use queer surrealist installation, craft practices, and performance in order to address queer and disabled temporality, articulating our experiences as disabled queer femme artists through abstracted and literal exploration of femme bodies in space. In performance and installation works Hospital Performance: Part I and Hospital Performance: Part II, we responded to our experience of marginalization, medical malpractice, and emotional isolation, ultimately exploring queer and disabled temporality through queer surrealism. Hand-poured scented candles became metaphors for queer and disabled bodies, and along with other craft practices used in this work, are a …